Film locations for An American Werewolf in London (1981) Surrey: Drink at: The Black Swan , Old Lane, Martyr's Green (tel: 01932 862364) (rail: Effingham Junction from London Waterloo or London Blackfriars) Trivia The dull and belated sequel, An American Werewolf in Paris, was filmed largely in Luxembourg. An American Werewolf in London location: David Kessler goes through changes in the flat of nurse Alex Price: 64 Coleherne Road, Earl's Court, London SW10 Unsurprisingly, the locations for John Landis ’ horror-comedy can be found mainly around London , with a brief detour into Wales , standing in for ‘Yorkshire’. An American Werewolf in London location: arriving in the village: Crickadarn, near Builth Wells, Wales Photograph: Kevin Thomas A pub full of character actors rhubarbing away on the 'Yorkshire Moors' can only mean bad news for two American backpackers.

The moors were filmed around the Black Mountains in Wales , and 'East Proctor' is in reality the tiny village of Crickadarn, about six miles southeast of Builth Wells off the A479. The ‘Angel of Death’ statue was a prop added for the film, but the red phone box is real enough – though Welsh the road signs were covered by a fake tree. An American Werewolf in London location: the exterior of the ‘Slaughtered Lamb’: Crickadarn, near Builth Wells, Wales Photograph: Kevin Thomas If you want to join the locals here for a pint at 'The Slaughtered Lamb', you’ll have quite a journey. Although the exterior was an empty (now restored – so please do not disturb the residents) cottage dressed up for the movie. An American Werewolf in London location: the phonebox and village church at ‘East Proctor’: Crickadarn, near Builth Wells, Wales Photograph: Kevin Thomas The interior of ‘The Slaughtered Lamb’ is in Surrey . It’s The Black Swan , Old Lane at the junction with Ockham Lane, Martyr’s Green, about a mile northwest of Effingham Junction between Guildford and Leatherhead.

The photogenic pub, also featured in TV’s Inspector Morse, but has been given a radical makeover since the Eighties. An American Werewolf in London location: ‘The Slaughtered Lamb’ interior – no pentagram: The Black Swan, Martyr's Green, Surrey It’s now a smart restaurant-pub and you’ll need to use a little imagination to recognise it as the old-world inn where Lila Kaye tended bar, a young Rik Mayall played chess and Brian Glover held court. The wall which bore the pentagram was a false addition for the film (it’s actually the doorway to what is now the main dining room) and the bench seats are gone, but the layout remains the same. Oh, and there’s no longer a dartboard. An American Werewolf in London location: ‘The Slaughtered Lamb’ interior – no dartboard: The Black Swan, Martyr's Green, Surrey The hospital in which David Kessler ( David Naughton ) recovers from a nasty wolf bite was the Princess Beatrice Maternity Hospital on Finborough Road at Lillie Road in Earl’s Court, London SW5. The building is still there, and is now a hostel for the homeless.

A block east, around the corner at 64 Coleherne Road, SW10, you can see the flat of nurse Alex Price ( Jenny Agutter ), where David does some shape-shifting to Bad Moon Rising (tube: Earl’s Court). Unusually, the tube station, where the city gent gets chomped, was filmed, during the wee small hours, at Tottenham Court Road Station (London Transport’s all-purpose location, the closed Aldwych Station in the Strand, is almost invariably used for filming). An American Werewolf in London location: mayhem in central London: Piccadilly Circus The undead victims pop up in a studio recreation of the old Eros News Cinema (now a branch of GAP clothes store, more recently featured in Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 1 ) on the corner of Shaftesbury Avenue in Piccadilly Circus. You can see the cinema in its heyday in 1949 when the kids go to see the Siege of Burgundy in classic Ealing comedy Passport To Pimlico .

And once again John Landis demonstrates his talent for staging major set-pieces in impossible locations by setting the climactic mayhem smack in the middle of Piccadilly Circus itself – although, if you look carefully, you can see a wobbly street sign. An American Werewolf in London location: the climax in the ‘West End’ alleyway: Winchester Walk, Borough, SE1 In fact, some of this sequence was filmed on a mock-up of the Circus at Twickenham Studios. The dark alley, where the wolf is finally cornered, which seems to be in the West End, is Winchester Walk, south of the Thames, off the familiar location of Park Street ( Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels , Bridget Jones’s Diary among others) in Borough (tube: London Bridge). • Many thanks to Kevin Thomas for help with this section.

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In the meantime, all submissions made from this page will only take an average of 24hrs to be added, so please keep 'em coming! 1981 Featured Movie Location: "The Slaughtered Lamb" [Interior] Wanna see the real life filming location used for "The Slaughtered Lamb" [Interior] in the movie? These scenes were actually shot at The Black Swan Public House, located at Old Lane in Martyr's Green, Leatherhead, SURREY, UK. Locations Manager(s): Ray Freeborn On Location The "Slaughtered Lamb" public house featured in the movie is actually nowhere near its supposed setting in the movie. Crickadarn, near Builth Wells in Wales stood in for the fictional village of "East Proctor". The scene at the outside of the Slaughtered Lamb pub was filmed there, whilst the inside of the pub was filmed at the Black Swan pub at Effingham, Surrey, near London. [Thanks to Sarah Jenkins] The scenes filmed on the "Moors" were actually filmed at the Brecon Beacons in Wales. Closeups were completed at Windsor Great Park (a big tourist attraction -hardly a scary place!).

Jenny Agutter's flat exterior is opposite the church on Redcliffe Square, nr Earl's Court, London SW10. [Thanks to Amer Rehman] Jenny Agutter's hospital was the nearby St Stevens in Fulham Road. [Thanks to John B. Latham] Can you help? Do you know any of the UK (or any other) filming locations used for An American Werewolf In London? [ Please send them in ] Locations Links An American Werewolf in London (Film) - TV Tropes An American Werewolf in London You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share Film / An American Werewolf in London × WMG Beware the moon, David. An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 Universal comedy/horror film written and directed by John Landis . (It was advertised with the Tagline , "From the director of Animal House , a different sort of animal.") Starring David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter , and John Woodvine, the film featured special effects by master make-up artist Rick Baker.

( Frank Oz also made a cameo appearance, as did Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy — not to mention Landis himself.) It was shot on location in the UK, with Wales standing in for the Yorkshire moors, and "The Black Swan" pub in London for "The Slaughtered Lamb." The background music consisted of a number of cannily deployed popular songs (all of which have "moon" in the title), bolstered with some eleven minutes of moodily atmospheric music by Elmer Bernstein . AWiL has infuriated some Britons, particularly Northerners , with its somewhat cartoonish and stereotypical depictions of life in the UK; it is possible that this was a deliberate echoing on Landis's part of the sketchily researched versions of Britain found in the Universal horror cycles of the Thirties and Forties. In 1997 a sequel, An American Werewolf in Paris , appeared; despite an engaging pair of leads (Tom Everett Scott and Julie Delpy), this was so fundamentally ill-conceived and executed (Landis was barely involved at all) that it was not very well received.

Based largely on this film, Michael Jackson engaged Landis to direct his 1982 " Thriller " music video, and hired Rick Baker to do the make-up effects for it. There is now a Slaughtered Lamb Pub in the Greenwich Village section of New York City . Also, in a triumph for Universal Studios , the 2013 Halloween Horror Nights event at the Orlando park successfully got permission to make a haunted house based on the film. It includes virtually every horror-related scene of the film, from the attack on the moors and the demonic Nazi dream to the famous transformation and the wolf's rampage out of the porn theater into Picadilly Circus. The house was so popular that it was brought over to the Hollywood event the following year, and in 2015 was done at the Orlando event a second time. A remake of the film is rumored to be in the works. An American Werewolf in London provides examples of the following tropes: Advertising by Association : The poster for the film proclaimed "From the director of Animal House ... A different kind of animal ." All Just a Dream : The nightmare sequence is actually a parody of this, in that David has a horrific dream, then wakes up and believes everything is fine...

until a creature comes from the curtains and stabs the nurse! Then he wakes up again, exclaiming "Holy Shit!". Alternate Identity Amnesia : David doesn't remember what he does in wolf form. Ambiguously Jewish : It's never confirmed that the two guys are Jewish, but they have Ashkenazi-sounding names and use a bit of Yiddish, and they're both from New York. A nurse suspects that David is Jewish after checking out his package, but Alex says that circumcision is no longer strictly a Jewish thing. In the dream sequence where the werewolf-Nazis kill David's family, a menorah is visible on one of the shelves in the background. American Title : In London. Ate His Gun : One of David and Jack's victims in the porn theater suggests this to David. Bittersweet Ending / Downer Ending : David's love interest confesses her love to him while he's in wolf form. She actually seems to get to him a little, but he still dies in the end.

That being said, if David wasn't killed he would have murdered more people doomed to be among the undead, and presumably Jack and David's victims are set free from being forced to walk the earth and are allowed to proceed to whatever comes next. Body Horror : Not only David's, but also Jack's gradual transformation. Britain Is Only London : The film starts out in the North, but David quickly winds up in London after his injury, even though it's hundreds of miles away. British Stuffiness : Averted. David tries to get himself arrested in Trafalgar Square by shouting curse words, but the local British aren't particularly insulted and assume he's got some other motive. Catch Phrase : Each of Landis's films works in the phrase, "See You Next Wednesday" somewhere. In AWiL, it serves as the title of the porn film David and Jack and "friends" watch. Cat Scare : Out on the moors, David and Jack are being stalked by the werewolf. They run away, but suddenly David falls...revealing nothing knocked him over. He'd just tripped. Both of them got a good laugh at this. But when Jack moves to help him up, the werewolf attacks.

Celebrity Paradox : Frank Oz appears as an American consulate. Soon afterwards, David has a dream featuring Miss Piggy, who was puppeteered by Frank Oz. City of Weirdos : David tries to get himself locked up so he won't kill more people at moonrise, but is merely told to move along when he starts shouting insults about the royals and Britain's cultural icons in public. This, after his running around the park naked is greeted with a mere sniff of disdain by an older lady. Cold Equation : The "Remember The Alamo" joke told at the pub uses this trope. Creator Cameo : John Landis is the bearded man who gets hit by a car and thrown through the plate glass window in Piccadilly Circus. The Dead Have Eyes : Apparently, eyes don't rot. Dead Person Conversation : Not so "boring" after all, it would seem. Death by Cameo : John Landis appears as a pedestrian who is hurled through a plate-glass window by a crashing car. Developing Doomed Characters : One of the film's great successes is actually making David and Jack likable before the werewolf appears. Dream Within a Dream : David awakens from a nightmare only to find himself in another nightmare.

Emergency Cargo Dump : One of the East Proctor pub crowd tells a joke about a plane full of U.N. representatives that was faced with this dilemma. Evil-Detecting Dog : The animals can tell that David is a werewolf, and all go insane at him. Well, except the wolves. Evil Feels Good : David awakens from his first transformation feeling fantastic and re-energized, thinking he's just going crazy. Until he learns about the 6 people who were murdered, that is... Filth : David enters a porn theater showing a hilariously bad flick called See You Next Wednesday Fate Worse Than Death : Jack and David's many victims who are doomed to prowl the earth in limbo, their corpses rotting away until the werewolf's bloodline is destroyed. David himself, cursed to remain a werewolf that will inevitably prey on more innocent victims so long as he remains alive. The Florence Nightingale Effect : How Nurse Price falls in love with David. She finds him handsome and "sad." Another nurse admits to checking out his penis, which hints that his being a werewolf may be inspiring these feelings as well.

Ghostapo : Because he is a nice Jewish boy, David's nightmares naturally involve hideous monsters — wearing SS uniforms. Gory Discretion Shot : Most deaths are only shown briefly. Greater Scope Villain : According to a deleted scene in the sequel , the Big Bad claims that the werewolf society in the sequel existed for centuries and the werewolf that bit David was a former member. Hand or Object Underwear : David goes through a few of these after waking up naked in a wolf cage at the zoo. "A naked American man stole my balloons." Hello, Nurse! : As Griffin Dunne remarks in the DVD commentary à propos Alex's treatment of David: "I want to stay in that hospital!" Hope Spot : The three seconds where it looks like Alex is about to save the day with The Power of Love , or at least be the one to mercy kill him, as he hinted at earlier in the film. Instead, he lunges at her and gets gunned down by the police. "Knock Knock" Joke : David tries to tell an inverted one to Jack on the moors, but Jack doesn't get it. Idiot Ball : David and Jack really don't have any reason to leave the road in the first place.

They're already travelling in the dark, in a strange area with no real idea of where they're going. Why would they just wander into the moors at night, after being warned several times by the locals (however sketchy they were) that it's dangerous? As a result, they quickly get lost - and it just gets worse from there. Job Title : Referring to David's lycanthropy Leaning on the Fourth Wall : During his painful transformation David looks pleadingly into the camera and reaches out as if begging the audience to help him. Lightmare Fuel : This film is seemingly made of this trope in some parts. Griffin Dunne and David Naughton are laughing it up, joking about the superstitious villagers as they walk along the moonlit road one second, telling some authentically funny jokes that will get the audience chuckling along... and in the next second Dunne's throat is ripped out on-camera and Naughton is slowly bleeding out from a werewolf bite. Matzo Fever : David is quite the chick magnet, even when unconscious. Mirror Scare : Jack appears behind David when he adjusts a mirror. Naked People Are Funny : Though poor David Naughton wasn't laughing, after Dr.

Pepper sacked him as its spokesman for appearing nude on film. Names to Run Away from Really Fast : "The Slaughtered Lamb," with a grisly picture of a severed wolf's head on the sign. Old British pubs do tend to have rather blunt names, though. Never Trust a Trailer : Apparently many people ran from the theater once the movie marketed as "From the director of Animal House " turned out to be really scary. Nice Jewish Boy : David definitely qualifies as this. Nightmare Sequence : Several, getting worse and worse and worse... No Ending : Played with. David is dead, the police look on in disbelief as Alex grieves over his riddled body, cut to end credits. Our Lawyers Advised This Trope : " This is a work of fiction — any resemblance to actual persons living, dead, or undead, is purely coincidental." The same disclaimer later appeared in the closing credits for the " Thriller " video.

Our Werewolves Are Different : The werewolf in this film is a definitely quadrupedal, over-sized animal, looking rather like a Huskie that has swallowed a large barrel, with limbs set more like a crocodile's than a wolf's; moreover, it has a howl like a train-whistle. Or Was It a Dream? : David awakens from a nightmare only to find himself in a Dream Within a Dream . Painful Transformation : As in, bone-cracking. One of the best, most definitive examples of all time. Resist the Beast : David tries but, alas, fails. Sci-Fi Writers Have No Sense of Scale : After being attacked, the main characters are taken from the Yorkshire Moors, in the North of England, where there are any number of good hospitals, to London, which is in the South. The contrast between the Moors and a northern city wouldn't have been as severe as with metropolitan London. This may have had something to do with the locals wanting the imminent carnivorous lunar activities as far away from them as possible - the doctor mentions that David's wounds were cleaned and dressed before he arrived. Sex Is Violence : Both Alex and David are shown biting each other repeatedly as foreplay.

The Curse of the Werewolf with Oliver Reed is also mentioned. Shower of Love : David and Alex, and don't we envy both of them. Silver Bullet : Averted, and mocked. When David is advised by his victims to kill himself, he asks, "Don't I need a silver bullet?", whereupon Jack tartly replies, "Oh, be serious!" Sinister Subway : The London Underground is suddenly quite empty when a werewolf comes prowling. Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror : Roughly around the middle somewhere. John Landis said it's not a comedy, but in context he seemed to have been committing an equivocation fallacy between "comedy" as opposed to "drama" and "comedy" as opposed to "tragedy". Soundtrack Dissonance : To the extreme, particularly in the ending. Stay on the Path : "Beware the moon... and stick to the road... oops." Stylistic Suck : The porn film See You Next Wednesday that David and Jack watch features some delightfuly absurd scenes that go nowhere. In one scene, an angry man bursts in on the copulating couple to accuse his lover of cheating on him.

Both the man and the woman have no idea who he is, so he apologizes and leaves. Later, the naked woman answers a phone call, but it's a wrong number, so she hangs up. David comments, "Nice movie!" leaving it unclear whether he's being sarcastic or if the film is intentionally some sort of Dada porno. Take That : One line, "Sean, I think there are some hooligans in the park again," (spoken as a werewolf is ripping some people apart) is a parody of a remark reportedly made by Margaret Thatcher . This Was His True Form : The monstrous werewolf that attacks David is revealed to be a small, bald old man in his true form. To Serve Man : The werewolf cuisine of choice, though venison is apparently David's dream-food. Town with a Dark Secret : East Proctor. Transformation Sequence : One of the most famous werewolf ones, courtesy of Rick Baker — and this is without CG. The Undead : Those killed by a werewolf haunt him in the form of rotting, but sentient corpses. It is left somewhat uncertain whether they are actual material beings or not.

Urine Trouble : "Those sheep shit on my pack." 5 out of 5 stars Time Out says Two young American hitch-hikers sample British hospitality on the Yorkshire moors (temporary shelter is proffered at The Slaughtered Lamb pub), only to be savagely attacked. Naughton recuperates in London, marvelling at the best the NHS can provide in the form of nurse Agutter, but his deceased and decomposing pal Dunne keeps popping back to clue him up on what's in store come the full moon. The mix of horror and humour felt very fresh back in 1981, and many people retain affection for this sly, witty movie - most memorable for the trashing of Piccadilly Circus. In the cold light of day, it must be admitted that Landis leans too heavily on the shock effects provided by Rick Baker's lycanthropic transformation make-up.

By: TCh 5 out of 5 stars Average User Rating An American Werewolf in London (1981) - Connections - IMDb An American Werewolf in London (1981) Connections Showing all 198 items To pay homage to that film References The Alamo (1960) When David says "Remember the Alamo," the barmaid believes that he is referring to The Alamo (1960) rather than the historical event. The chess player refers to its star John Wayne . Jack says, "Right. With Laurence Harvey . Everyone dies in it. Very bloody." Schlock (1973) The movie-within-a-movie "I'll See You Next Wednesday" (posters in London tube and film in Picadilly theatre) is from director's first film, "Schlock". The poster can be seen in the tube station. Referenced in After Hours (1985) When Paul leaves the subway, the cop is heard saying "Must be a full moon out there." Dunne's character in An American Werewolf in London says "It's a full moon...beware the moon" when he and David are lost on the moors.

Golden Axe (1989) (Video Game) the screams including the villagers in the Turtle Village level can be heard from this movie are featured in this game NewsRadio: Towers (1999) (TV Episode) London, says Jimmy, "home of the American werewolf" Underworld (2003) At the start of the movie when Selene encounters a werewolf in the train tunnel, you hear a wolf howl - the sound effect is taken directly from American Werewolf in London, An (1981). Beerfest (2006) Quotes a line from the movie, scene where Barry wakes up naked next to a partially eaten deer Big Bad Wolf (2006) Not only does David Naughton have a cameo in it, Melissa and Jason have a dialogue sequence which was taken from it and only slightly modified to be more appropriate. It takes place just after they are interrupted mid-coitus in the woods and concludes when Jason falls and Melissa is attacked.

Psych: Let's Get Hairy (2009) (TV Episode) In An American Werewolf in London, David covers his nakedness with a bunch of balloons he steals from a kid in a zoo following his first werewolf night. In Psych, Stewart Gimbley is similarly covered when Gus and Shawn find him in their closet after his werewolf adventure. Also, David Naughton, who plays lycanthrope protagonist David Kessler in An American Werewolf in London, plays Dr Ken Tucker in Psych. Deadly Premonition (2010) (Video Game) Mentioned during an autopsy of Anna Livid (2011) The pub sign for 'The Slaughtered Lamb' is outside the pub where the three main characters go drinking / make their plan Midnight Movie Review: An American Werewolf in London (2012) (TV Episode) the film of this episode's topic. Teen Wolf: Tattoo (2013) (TV Episode) Mentioned in dialogue Holliston: Joe's Soda (2013) (TV Episode) David Naughton guest-stars as a man whom Adam and Joe believe is a werewolf.

Foxy & Co.: Pilot (2014) (TV Episode) Title mentioned The Snarling (2016) Albert Moses played the hospital porter in An American Werewolf in London, and in The Snarling is featured as a hospital patient with the porter being played by his son, Alex, dressed and delivering lines from An American Werewolf in London Phelous says David Naughton is quoted as saying Ice Cream Man holds up better than this movie Features The Muppet Show (1976) (TV Series) the clip was featured. The kids are watching it on TV just before the home invasion Featured in Masters of Horror (2002) (TV Movie) Clips from the movie are featured throughout the show Father Ted: Chirpy Burpy Cheap Sheep (1998) (TV Episode) When looking for "the beast" on the moors, Ted quotes the line "It sounds like it's coming from all around us", the scene is set to look just like the scene where two people are followed by a wolf on the moors in this film.

Spaced: Chaos (1999) (TV Episode) The final scene of a man being stalked through the park by a ghost dog spoofs the opening of this film. The dialogue used by the man is identical to the man from the famous subway scene in this film ("I can assure you this isn't in the slightest bit funny!"). The camera angles, settings and lighting are nearly identical to the scene in the film where the two hikers are attacked by the werewolf. It's confirmed as a parody on both the DVD's commentary track and the DVD's trivia subtitle track. Jackass: Episode #2.4 (2001) (TV Episode) recreated during stunt of the same name View All Critic Reviews (46) Audience Reviews for An American Werewolf in London These excessively gory horror films of the 1980's have either been extreme turn on or off for me. "An American Werewolf in London" is a definite plus to it's genre. Helming some genuinely creepy practical effects and some fantastic gore, this is one horror film that will never feel dated. As two friends arrive in London, they are attacked by a wolf.

While one comes back as a zombie, the other must face the fact that he will turn into a werewolf at each moon's first light unless he kills himself. With a dark story, there are some very charming moments peppered throughout this picture. I had a blast watching this film and I would highly recommend it to any horror fans out there. With a script you don't have to take too seriously and direction that is clearly poking fun while staying creepy, "An American Werewolf in London" is great! If I had to fault it, it would be the fact that it takes far too long to build up to the conclusion. Overall, it is a very fun time. KJ Proulx Super Reviewer A werewolf movie turned into a comedy. It's a very original idea that cinema had never been seen before. Werewolf in London couldn't have done it better. It had the feeling of a classic black and white horror movie and the make up is absolutely outstanding. As it's among the best ever crafted. Not so much a scary film by modern standards but with a mix of black humour, light hearted comedy and likable characters it deserves its ultimate cult status.

Directors Cat An American Werewolf in London | All The Tropes Wiki | Fandom powered by Wikia All The Tropes Wiki An American Werewolf in London 146,569pages on Haiku • Laconic Beware the moon, David. An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 Universal comedy/horror film written and directed by John Landis . (It was advertised with the Tagline , "From the director of Animal House , a different sort of animal.") Starring David Naughton, Griffin Dunne, Jenny Agutter, and John Woodvine, the film featured special effects by master make-up artist Rick Baker. (Frank Oz also made a cameo appearance, as did Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy -- not to mention Landis himself.) It was shot on location in the UK, with Wales standing in for the Yorkshire moors, and "The Black Swan" pub in London for "The Slaughtered Lamb." The background music consisted of a number of cannily deployed popular songs (all of which have "moon" in the title), bolstered with some eleven minutes of moodily atmospheric music by Elmer Bernstein . AWiL was not particularly successful in its initial run.

Critics were reportedly confused about whether to regard it as a comedy film with horror elements or a horror film with comedy relief, though Landis himself regards it as entirely in the vein of the old Universal monster films of the Forties. (There are also striking similarities between the Landis film and a 1941 British film, The Night Has Eyes, starring James Mason.) Since the Eighties, the film has come back from the dead (so to speak) as a Cult Classic . Naughton and Dunne handled their "buddy-body" banter excellently (the film really might have been entitled Road to Lycanthropy ); Jenny Agutter as sexy nurse Alex Price is supremely enticing; and the acting throughout is generally well-handled -- the characters come across as both interesting and sympathetic. It is true, however, that Landis does not seem quite to know what to do with such engaging characters; the initial parts of the film are both thrilling and funny, but about two-thirds of the way through, the plot seems to lose direction, and merely piles gory scene on gory scene in massive confusion until the film abruptly -- stops.

AWiL has infuriated some Britons, particularly Northerners , with its somewhat cartoonish and stereotypical depictions of life in the UK; it is possible that this was a deliberate echoing on Landis's part of the sketchily researched versions of Britain found in the Universal horror cycles of the Thirties and Forties. In 1997 a sequel, An American Werewolf in Paris , appeared; despite an engaging pair of leads (Tom Everett Scott and Julie Delpy), this was so fundamentally ill-conceived and executed (Landis was barely involved at all) that it was not very well received. Based largely on this film, Michael Jackson engaged Landis to direct his 1982 "Thriller" music video, and hired Rick Baker to do the make-up effects for it. There is now a Slaughtered Lamb Pub in the Greenwich Village section of New York City . A remake of the film is rumored to be in the works. Tropes used in An American Werewolf in London include: All Just a Dream : The nightmare sequence is actually a parody of this, in that David has a horrific dream, then wakes up and believes everything is fine...

until a creature comes from the curtains and stabs the nurse! Then he wakes up again, exclaiming "Holy Shit!". Ambiguously Jewish : It's never confirmed that the two guys are Jewish, but they have Ashkenazi-sounding names and use a bit of Yiddish, though they're both from New York. A nurse suspects that David is Jewish after checking out his package, but Alex says that circumcision is no longer strictly a Jewish thing. American Title : In London. Body Horror : Not only David's, but also Jack's gradual transformation. Britain Is Only London : The film starts out in the North, but David quickly winds up in London after his injury, even though it's hundreds of miles away. British Stuffiness : Averted. David tries to get himself arrested in Trafalgar Square by shouting curse words, but the local British aren't particularly insulted and assume he's got some other motive. British Tourist Attractions : Piccadilly Circus, the Tower Bridge, Trafalgar Square, the Zoo. But You Screw One Goat!

: Not a direct reference, but Deadpan Snarker Jack does call out a flirty "Bye, girls!" to the truckful of sheep after the driver drops the boys off near East Proctor. Catch Phrase : Each of Landis's films works in the phrase, "See You Next Wednesday" somewhere. In AWiL, it serves as the title of the porn film David and Jack and "friends" watch. Celebrity Paradox : Frank Oz appears as an American consulate. Soon afterwards, David has a dream featuring Miss Piggy, who is voiced by Frank Oz. City of Weirdos : David tries to get himself locked up so he won't kill more people at moonrise, but is merely told to move along when he starts shouting insults about the royals and Britain's cultural icons in public. This, after his running around the park naked is greeted with a mere sniff of disdain by an older lady. The Dead Have Eyes : Apparently, eyes don't rot. Dead Person Conversation : Not so "boring" after all, it would seem. Death by Cameo : John Landis appears as a pedestrian who is hurled through a plate-glass window by a crashing car.

Developing Doomed Characters : One of the film's great successes is actually making David and Jack likable before the werewolf appears. Downer Ending : David's love interest confesses her love to him while he's in wolf form. She actually seems to get to him a little, but he still dies in the end. That being said it's more of a Bittersweet Ending , albeit very bitter, but if David wasn't killed he would have murdered more people doomed to be among the undead. Dream Within a Dream : David awakens from a nightmare only to find himself in another nightmare. Evil-Detecting Dog : The animals can tell that David is a werewolf, and all go insane at him. Well, except the wolves. Evil Feels Good : David awakens from his first transformation feeling fantastic and re-energized. The Florence Nightingale Effect : How Nurse Price falls in love with David. She finds him handsome and "sad." Another nurse admits to checking out his penis, which hints that his being a werewolf may be inspiring these feelings as well. Ghostapo : Because he is a nice Jewish boy, David's nightmares naturally involve hideous monsters -- wearing SS uniforms.

Hand or Object Underwear : David goes through a few of these after waking up naked in a wolf cage at the zoo. "A naked American man stole my balloons." Hello, Nurse! : As Griffin Dunne remarks in the DVD commentary à propos Alex's treatment of David: "I want to stay in that hospital!" Hope Spot : The three seconds where it looks like Alex is about to save the day with the Power Of Love, or at least be the one to mercy kill him, as he hinted at earlier in the film. Instead, he lunges at her and gets gunned down by the police. Idiot Ball : The two guys really don't have any reason to wander off the road. They're in the dark, in a strange area with no real idea of where they're going. Why would they just wander into the moors after being warned several times that it's dangerous? In fact, they quickly find themselves lost. And eaten. Admittedly, they don't wander off the road intentionally. They're unnerved by the reaction of the locals and they start joking to calm themselves down. When they leave the road, it is a complete accident and they don't even realize it until it's too late.

The London Underground : Where Gerald Bringsley has an unfortunate encounter. Mirror Scare : Jack appears behind David when he adjusts a mirror. Naked People Are Funny : Though poor David Naughton wasn't laughing, after Dr. Pepper sacked him as its spokesman for appearing nude on film. Names to Run Away From Really Fast : "The Slaughtered Lamb," with a grisely picture of a severed wolf's head on the sign. Old British pubs do tend to have rather blunt names, though. Nightmare Sequence : Several, getting worse and worse and worse... Oop North : Wheer tha maught find East Proctor. Our Ghosts Are Different : No one killed by a werewolf can pass on to the afterlife until its bloodline is cut off, leaving David haunted by The Undead forms of the people he himself has killed, and at least one of the people killed by the werewolf that bit him.

Our Lawyers Advised This Trope : " This Is a Work of Fiction -- any resemblance to actual persons living, dead, or undead, is purely coincidental." Our Werewolves Are Different : The werewolf in this film is a definitely quadrupedal, oversized animal, looking rather like a Huskie that has swallowed a large barrel, with limbs set more like a crocodile's than a wolf's; moreover, it has a howl like a train-whistle. Or Was It a Dream? : David awakens from a nightmare only to find himself in a Dream Within a Dream . Painful Transformation : As in, bone-cracking. One of the best, most definitive examples of all time. David: No, but he was on the moors. The Curse of the Werewolf with Oliver Reed is also mentioned. Shower of Love : David and Alex, and don't we envy both of them. Silver Bullet : Averted, and mocked. When David is advised by his victims to kill himself, he asks, "Don't I need a silver bullet?", whereupon Jack tartly replies, "Oh, be serious!" Sinister Subway : The London Underground is suddenly quite empty when a werewolf comes prowling.

Sliding Scale of Comedy and Horror : Roughly around the middle somewhere. John Landis said it's not a comedy, but in context he seemed to have been committing an equivocation fallacy between "comedy" as opposed to "drama" and "comedy" as opposed to "tragedy". Soundtrack Dissonance : To the extreme, particularly in the ending. The songs were all apparently chosen for having "moon" in the lyrics rather than fitting the mood of the scene. Stay on the Path : "Beware the moon... and stick to the road... oops." Stylistic Suck : The porn film See You Next Wednesday that David and Jack watch features some delightfuly absurd scenes that go nowhere. In one scene, an angry man bursts in on the copulating couple to accuse his lover of cheating on him. Both the man and the woman have no idea who he is, so he apologizes and leaves. Later, the naked woman answers a phone call, but it's a wrong number, so she hangs up. David comments, "Nice movie!" leaving it unclear whether he's being sarcastic or if the film is intentionally some sort of Dada porno.

Take That : One line, "Sean, I think there are some hooligans in the park again," (spoken as a werewolf is ripping some people apart) is a parody of a remark reportedly made by Margaret Thatcher . This Was His True Form : The monsterous werewolf that attacks David is revealed to be a small, bald old man in his true form. To Serve Man : The werewolf cuisine of choice, though venison is apparently David's dream-food. Town with a Dark Secret : East Proctor. Transformation Trauma : One of the most famous werewolf transformation sequences , courtesy of Rick Baker -- and this is without CG. The Undead : Those killed by a werewolf haunt him in the form of rotting, but sentient corpses. It is left somewhat uncertain whether they are actual material beings or not. Urine Trouble : "Those sheep shit on my pack." You Have to Believe Me : First, Jack tries to get David to believe him: "Goddammit, David, please believe me! You'll kill and make others like me! I'm not having a nice time here." Later David tries the same with Alex and others.

An American Werewolf in London - 必应 Sign in An American Werewolf in London An American Werewolf in London is a 1981 British-American comedy horror film written and directed by John Landis, and starring David Naughton, Jenny Agutter, and Griffin Dunne. The film's plot concerns two young American men, David Kessler (played by Naughton) and Jack Goodman (played by Dunne), attacked by a werewolf on a backpacking holiday in England. With Jack killed, David is taken to a London hospital, where his disturbing apparitions of his deceased friend informs him that he is a werewolf and will transform at the next full moon. Filming took place in London, Surrey, and Wales. It was released in the United States on August 21, 1981, and grossed $30.56 ... (展开) million at the box office. The film received positive reviews from critics. who praised Rick Baker's make-up special effects. The film won the 1981 Saturn Award for Best Horror Film and the first-ever awarded Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup.

The film was one of three high-profile wolf-themed horror films released in 1981, alongside The Howling and Wolfen. Over the years, the film has accumulated a cult following and has become a cult classic. The film was followed by a 1997 sequel, An American Werewolf in Paris, which featured a completely different cast and none of the original crew, and is distributed by Disney's Hollywood Pictures. A Hindi film, Junoon, was inspired by the film. 关于An American Werewolf in London，网友们最关心的问题 1 An American Werewolf in London Plot Two American college students, David Kessler and Jack Goodman, backpack across the North York Moors. As darkness falls, they stop for the night at a pub called "The Slaughtered Lamb". Jack notices a five-pointed star on the wall. When he asks about it, the pubgoers stop talking and become hostile, telling them to keep to the road and beware of the full moon. The pair decide to leave, but while talking they wander off the road onto the moors. Jack and David hear sinister howls, which seem to be getting closer. They start back to the Slaughtered Lamb but realize that they are now lost.

The boys are attacked by a supernaturally large wolf-like animal and Jack is killed. The attacker is shot by some of the pubgoers but instead of a dead animal, David sees the corpse of a naked man lying next to him. David survives the mauling and is taken to a hospital in London. When David wakes up three weeks later, he does not remember what happened. He is interviewed by police Inspector Villiers who tells him that he and Jack were attacked by an escaped lunatic. David insists that they were actually attacked by a large dog or wolf. Jack appears to David as a reanimated corpse to explain that they were attacked by a werewolf, and that David is now a werewolf. Jack urges David to kill himself before the next full moon, not only because Jack is cursed to exist in a state of living death for as long as the bloodline of the werewolf that attacked them survives, but also to prevent David from inflicting the same fate on anyone else. Dr. Hirsch takes a trip to the Slaughtered Lamb to see if what David has told him is true. When asked about the incident, the pubgoers deny any knowledge of David, Jack, or their attacker.

But one distraught pubgoer speaks to Dr. Hirsch outside the pub and says that David should not have been taken away, and that he and everyone else will be in danger when he changes, only to be quickly silenced by a fellow pubgoer. Upon his release from the hospital, David moves in with Alex Price, a pretty young nurse who grew infatuated with him in the hospital. He stays in Alex's London apartment, where they later make love for the first time. Jack, in an advanced stage of decay, appears to David to warn him that he will turn into a werewolf the next day. Jack again advises David to take his own life to avoid killing innocent people. When the full moon rises, David painfully transforms into a werewolf and starts to prowl the streets and the London Underground, slaughtering six Londoners in the process. When he wakes in the morning, he is naked on the floor of the wolf cage at London Zoo, has no memory of his activities, and is unharmed by the resident wolves. David realizes that Jack was right about everything and that he is responsible for the murders of the night before. After failing to get himself arrested, David tries to slit his wrists with a pocket knife.

David sees Jack, in a yet more advanced stage of decay, outside an adult cinema in Piccadilly Circus. Inside, Jack is accompanied by David's victims from the previous night, all of whom are furious by him killing them(with the exception of the couple). They all then insist that he must commit suicide before turning into a werewolf again. While talking with them they offer him ways to kill himself, David transforms and goes on another killing spree. After bursting out of the cinema, biting off Inspector Villiers' head in the process, a horrific melee ensues. David is ultimately cornered in an alley by police. Alex tries to calm him down by telling him that she loves him. Though he is apparently placated, he is shot and killed when he lunges forward, returning to human form in front of a grieving Alex as he lies dead. Cameos and bit parts In the Piccadilly Circus sequence, the man hit by a car and thrown through a store window is Landis himself. As in most of the director's films, Frank Oz makes an appearance: first as Mr.

Collins from the American embassy in the hospital scene, and later as Miss Piggy in a dream sequence, when David's younger siblings watch a scene from The Muppet Show. Actors in bit parts who were already—or would become—more well-known include the two chess players David and Jack meet in the pub, played by the character actor Brian Glover and then-rising comedian and actor Rik Mayall, star and co-writer of The Young Ones and Bottom. One of the policemen helping to chase and kill the werewolf is John Altman, who would later achieve fame as "Nasty" Nick Cotton in EastEnders. Alan Ford—later to appear in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch—plays a taxi driver. The policeman in the cinema is played by John Salthouse and the policeman in Trafalgar Square is played by Peter Ellis. Both Salthouse and Ellis appeared in police drama The Bill. David Schofield, known as Mercer from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series, plays the dart player at The Slaughtered Lamb and assists Dr. Hirsch in his investigation of David's attack. The player throwing darts in the match on TV in Alex's apartment is Rab Smith.

Smith's opponent is Cliff Lazarenko. An American Werewolf in London Production John Landis came up with the story while he worked in Yugoslavia as a production assistant on the film Kelly's Heroes (1970). He and a Yugoslavian member of the crew were driving in the back of a car on location when they came across a group of gypsies. The gypsies appeared to be performing rituals on a man being buried so that he would not "rise from the grave." This made Landis realize that he would never be able to confront the undead and gave him the idea for a film in which a man would go through the same thing. Landis wrote the first draft of An American Werewolf in London in 1969 and shelved it for over a decade. Two years later, Landis wrote, directed, and starred in his debut film, Schlock, which developed a cult following. Landis developed box-office status in Hollywood through the successful comedy films The Kentucky Fried Movie, National Lampoon's Animal House and The Blues Brothers before securing $10 million financing for his werewolf film. Financiers believed that Landis' script was too frightening to be a comedy and too funny to be a horror film.

According to Entertainment Weekly, the real star of this film is the Oscar-winning transformation effects by Rick Baker, which changed the face of horror makeup in the 1980s. The various prosthetics and robotic body parts used during the film's extended werewolf transformation scenes and on Griffin Dunne when his character returns as a bloody, mangled ghost impressed the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences so much that the film won the Outstanding Achievement in Makeup in the category's inaugural year. During the body casting sessions, the crew danced around David Naughton singing, "I'm a werewolf, you're a werewolf ... wouldn't you like to be a werewolf, too?" in reference to his days as a pitchman for Dr Pepper.[citation needed] Filming The moors were filmed around the Black Mountains in Wales, and 'East Proctor' is in reality the tiny village of Crickadarn, about six miles southeast of Builth Wells off the A479. The ‘Angel of Death’ statue was a prop added for the film, but the red phone box is real enough – though the Welsh road signs were covered by a fake tree.

Some scenes from the film were shot on Hampstead Heath, Well Walk and Haverstock Hill, London. St. Stephen's Church, Rosslyn Hill is featured. Harry and Judith are killed in Hampstead Heath, behind The Pryors on East Heath Road. Before David kills them, Harry and Judith get out of the taxi on East Heath Road at Well Walk. The inn shown in the film known as "The Slaughtered Lamb" was actually a cottage located in Crickadarn, and the interior scenes were filmed in the Black Swan, Old Lane, Martyr's Green in Surrey. A reference to Landis' National Lampoon's Animal House is shown at the end credits, which congratulate Prince Charles and Diana Spencer on their marriage, end with a promo card for Universal Studios urging viewers to "Ask for Babs". An American Werewolf in London Music The film's ironically upbeat soundtrack consists of songs which refer to the moon.

Bobby Vinton's slow and soothing version of "Blue Moon" plays during the opening credits, Van Morrison's "Moondance" as David and Alex make love for the first time, Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Bad Moon Rising" as David nears the moment of changing to the werewolf, a soft, bittersweet ballad version of "Blue Moon" by Sam Cooke during the agonizing wolf transformation and The Marcels' doo-wop version of "Blue Moon" over the end credits. On the DVD commentary, David Naughton and Griffin Dunne said they were unsure why Landis did not obtain rights to Warren Zevon's Werewolves of London as they felt the song would have been more appropriate for the film. Critical reception The film received positive reviews from critics. On Rotten Tomatoes has an approval score of 89% on and an average rating of 7.8/10 based on reviews from 46 critics, compiled retrospectively.

The critical consensus states: "Terrifying and funny in almost equal measure, John Landis' horror-comedy crosses genres while introducing Rick Baker's astounding make-up effects." Kim Newman of Empire magazine praised the film, saying "Carnivorous lunar activities rarely come any more entertaining than this". Tom Huddleston from Time Out also gave the film a positive review, saying the film was "Not just gory but actually frightening, not just funny but clever". Halliwell's Film Guide described the film as a "curious but oddly endearing mixture of horror film and spoof, of comedy and shock, with everything grist to its mill including tourist Britain and the wedding of Prince Charles.

The special effects are notable, and signalled new developments in this field." Roger Ebert's review was less favourable; he stated that "An American Werewolf in London seems curiously unfinished, as if director John Landis spent all his energy on spectacular set pieces and then didn't want to bother with things like transitions, character development, or an ending." Academy Award - Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling (1982) (Won) Saturn Award - Saturn Award for Best Horror Film (1982) (Won) Saturn Award - Saturn Award for Best Make-up - Rick Baker - (Won) Saturn Award - Saturn Award for Best Actress - Jenny Agutter (Nomination) Saturn Award - Saturn Award for Best Writing - John Landis (Nomination) At the 54th Academy Awards, An American Werewolf in London won the first-ever awarded Academy Award for Outstanding Achievement in Makeup. During the 1982 Saturn Awards, the film won for Best Horror Film and Best Make-up and nominated for Best Actress and Best Writing. The American Film Institute nominated it for ranking on its 100 Laughs list.

An Empire magazine poll of critics and readers named An American Werewolf in London as the 107th greatest film of all time in September 2008. Radio adaptation A radio adaptation of the film was broadcast on BBC Radio 1 in 1997, written and directed by Dirk Maggs and with Jenny Agutter, Brian Glover, and John Woodvine reprising the roles of Alex Price, the chess player (now named George Hackett, and with a more significant role as East Proctor's special constable) and Dr. Hirsch. The roles of David and Jack were played by Eric Meyers and William Dufris. Maggs's script added a back-story that some people in East Proctor are settlers from Eastern Europe and brought lycanthropy with them. The werewolf who bites David is revealed to be related to Hackett, and has escaped from an asylum where he is held under the name "Larry Talbot", the name of the title character in The Wolf Man. An American Werewolf in London Home media The film was first released on DVD in January 1998 by LIVE Entertainment according to a LIVE DVD Advertisement.

Universal released a 20th anniversary "Collector's Edition" DVD on September 18, 2001. The high-definition version of the film was first released on HD DVD by Universal on November 28, 2006. A high-definition Blu-ray Disc and 2-disc standard-definition Region 1 DVD release of the film titled "An American Werewolf in London - Full Moon Edition" was released by Universal on September 15, 2009. The Region 2 DVDs and Blu-ray were released on September 28 and are known as "An American Werewolf in London - Special Edition" No DVD or Blu-ray version at present contains the film's original mono audio track. The region 2 DVD release does not include a scene that is fully intact on the Region 1 release and all previous region 1 and 2 releases. The scene takes place near the end of the film where the character of David phones his parents from a public telephone box.

All but the end of this scene had been cut from the Region 2 release because the distributors felt that use of a public phone box, as opposed to a mobile phone, would date the film.[citation needed] As of October 2009, Universal said that they were scrapping all existing faulty stock and issuing replacement DVDs. All Blu-ray releases, however, are intact. ^ "AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (X)". British Board of Film Classification. September 15, 1981. Retrieved February 6, 2016. ^ "An American Werewolf in London, Box Office Information". The Numbers. Retrieved March 7, 2012. ^ Berardinelli, James (2000). "An American Werewolf in London review". Reelviews. Retrieved 2009-07-26. ^ An Interview with John Landis featurette on the American Werewolf in London DVD ^ Peary, Danny (1988). Cult Movies 3. New York: Simon & Schuster Inc. pp.15–19. ISBN0-671-64810-1.

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Question: What was the name of the Yorkshire pub featured in the 1981 movie An American Werewolf in London?
Answer: The Slaughtered Lamb